Sentence examples for permit prayers from inspiring English sources

In 1964, Mr. Miller testified during House Judiciary Committee hearings about proposed constitutional amendments to permit prayers in public schools.

Miss Evans appeared in the 1950's with the evangelist Billy Graham, and in the 1960's she joined a group of other actors in pressing for a constitutional amendment to permit prayer in public schools.

During the 1980's, the religious supremacists tried in vain to persuade the Supreme Court to reconsider its refusal to permit prayer in schools and the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

The NFL does have an exception clause for end zone celebrations that permit prayer.

It's not appropriate to permit prayer that can be divisive and alienating at non-voluntary events.

In Bakersfield, Mr. Cheney told a group of high school students in the Junior Reserved Officers Training Corps that "nothing is more essential to education than teaching character," and he suggested that permitting prayer in public schools would help accomplish the job.

Eight years after it barred organized prayer at public high school graduations, the Supreme Court today appeared deeply reluctant to permit organized prayer at public high school football games, at least when led by a student chosen in a schoolwide election to offer an invocation or message "to solemnize the event".

The school prayer issue occasioned a spirited argument at the Supreme Court Wednesday during which a majority of the justices expressed a healthy reluctance to permit organized prayer at public high school football games.

On the domestic front, Reagan offered little more than a habitual pitch for a series of nonstarters: a line-item veto and constitutional amendments banning abortion, permitting daily prayers in public schools, and mandating a balanced budget.

The court's previous religion jurisprudence, unchallenged by Ms Galloway and Ms Stephens, permits public prayer.

In Town of Greece v. Galloway, the court will decide whether the First Amendment permits a prayer before a town board meeting.